Jon Meacham Quotes

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

A government full of Democrats would rather have you be a Republican, and a government full of Republicans would rather have you be a Democrat, than have you oppose both.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

There are too many political moderates in America.

We have reached the point where politicians aren’t supposed to be political and the parties aren’t supposed to debate issues.

The media will not admit that Trump's America and Sanders' America are as different as Venus and Mars: they represent a very polarized America with two different answers to the question, 'Who are we?'

I've never been a fan of party politics.

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are against you.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I am not a centrist.

There's something about Barack Obama that induces Americans to imagine what they cannot see. The Right envisions a vile socialist, while many on the Left picture an inspired liberal, politically restrained in his first term but now free to pursue his true beliefs.

I don't understand how anybody's still a Democrat or a Republican. I don't know what they're basing it on.

I'm also politically independent so I'm not a fan of either the Democrats in Congress or the Republicans in Congress.

Conservatives and liberals alike have been waiting for this moment for a third of a century.

Usually, whatever people's particular political leaning is, they either think I'm just like them or the opposite.

I mean, look, we're living in a country where you can't have a non-denominational response. If you're slightly critical of either party, all of the partisans jump on you like you're a lunatic.

I don't trust liberals, I trust conservatives.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

The field of politics always presents the same struggle. There are the Right and the Left, and in the middle is the Swamp. The Swamp is made up of know-nothings, of them who are without ideas, of them who are always with the majority.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

The appellation of Aristocrats and Democrats is the true one expressing the essence of all [political] parties.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists